# FireFox, Flash and Focus causing me to scream another "F"

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-flash-and-focus-causing-me-to-scream-another-f/201744>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [September 24, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-flash-and-focus-causing-me-to-scream-another-f/201744 "2006-09-24T17:35:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![dewey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dewey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dewey)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-flash-and-focus-causing-me-to-scream-another-f/201744/1 "2006-09-24T17:35:55Z")

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Hello!

So I am trying to set the focus to my Flash movie automatically in FireFox

document.getElementById(“menubar”).focus();

Works great in IE, but I get nothing in FF, even in I have the embed id set to “menubar2” and I have

document.getElementById(“menubar2”).focus();

In the same area.

I really can’t figure this out, but any insight would be greatly appreciated…

Thanks a ton!

–D